2012-07-15

Featured Comments: Week of 2012 July 8

Reader manmath sahu suggested, "prasanth, liked the review very much and the way it's done over a period of 8 days is very useful. please take Stella (a CEntOS remaster) linux for a spin. i found it good, but would like to know about your experience."
Commenter abveritas, who I think is a leading developer of Chakra itself, had this to say, among other things: "Chakra being a rolling release, it is an absolute must to always update
the system, before installing any package. Seems quite a few packages
were installed during this review, which were build on newer deps, but
only the new app was installed, not the system properly updated. One
other thing that is an absolute must on a rolling distro, is for all our
users to read the news, when seeing a fairly large update, there is no
other way to give sometimes needed instructions to update correctly. In
this case, using the rm command was very wrong, and in most cases would
have killed pacman, the correct way to update was in the news, forums,
and all social sites, to make sure all users would be reached.http://chakra-linux.org/news/index.php?/archives/68-Manual-intervention-needed-with-next-pacman-Syu.html For
the rest, really pleased to see you taking the time to put Chakra
thtough a serious test, and hopefully we can get some logs, to see why
the crashes, since it would be great to try and reproduce, so a fix can
be found. Any and all logs you are willing to provide from /var/log
would be greatly appreciated."
Reader Jagdeesh Deshpande said, "Good that you got another PC. It has certainly helped to give depth to your reviews. I
always try real installations on one of 6 ext4 partitions among sdb6 to
sdb11. Hence presently I can compare mint 9, LMDE-64-mate-cinnamon,
openSUSE 12.1, and kububtu 12.04 Before a week, I installed kubuntu
12.04 LTS after a long wait for Mint 13 KDE and feel that at last I have
found successor of mint9. In openSUSE 12.1 the configuration module
for Wacom Bamboo CTH-460 is broken and so I can't make the touch 'off'
and this is interfering very badly moving the courser due to my finger's
touch while using the pen. In Kubuntu 12.04 the configuration tool is
working as in Pardus 2011.2. The trouble with kubuntu is- by default
hibernation is disabled. If 'sudo pm-hibernate' (in konsole) hibernates
the system, enable it by referring the forum post https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-help/power-hibernate.html Then I added plasma widgets plasma-widget-quickaccess plasma-widget-lancelot and @ 25 applications Now i am very satisfied with it and may not install mint13kde. If
Kubuntu 12.04 is not in your list and this creates interest in you to
try Kubuntu 12.04, your review will be very much useful for the Linux
community. Thanking for the indepth review."
Commenter Kartik had this suggestion: "Hi Prashant, good review. I myself have used chakra for almost 3 months
and found it to be a really fast KDE distro. If you are looking for
something long term on your PC I suggest you give Mageia 2 KDE a spin. I
found it to be very stable, fast and polished."

Thanks to all those who commented on this past week's posts. This coming week, there will be another long-term review published, and the review I was going to do of Fuduntu 2012.3 has been briefly incorporated into that. Depending on how things work out, I may be able to do another regular review as well. Anyway, if you like what I write, please continue subscribing and commenting!